by Christine | Jul 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
Back in the 1970s I worked for the Oakland Tribune as a copy editor, headline writer and layout person. The Trib in those days had an annual Music in the Home section, which was basically designed to encourage advertisers (piano stores, stereo stores, music stores,...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2012 | Welcome Column
I mailed in the paperwork yesterday to the California Department of Consumer Affairs to turn in my beloved old 1983 Dodge van to the cash for clunkers program. In one way it’s a brilliant deal: I paid $2,600 for that car back in 1994. Eighteen years later I’ll be...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2018 | Welcome Column
I listen to a lot of music in my spare time but I’m sorry to say that only a very small percentage of the professional music I hear is live music. Of course I can’t very well hire a live band to make music for me in my car during my drive to work. Even if I made it...
by Christine | Dec 12, 2018 | Welcome Column
OK, I can’t lie – I am caught up in the holiday season. (Living as Santa Claus all month can do that to you!) I call it the “holiday season” not to be politically correct, but simply because the period from mid-November through the 1st day of the new year is...
by Christine | Apr 26, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where it’s a mild seventy degrees, raining like cats and dogs, the actual cats as happy as clams to be inside out of the rain and the actual dogs unable to understand why Lynn is such a downer and won’t let them out, the outside temps...
